Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodstock, Ill., there is a boys' school, a collection of retired farmers, a prison. In the prison in the year 1895 sat a hot-blooded orator? of 40. He was Eugene Victor Debs, labor leader. He was in jail for the violation of an injunction. Back of this event was the story of an Indiana grocery clerk, a locomotive fireman, who became the organizer of the American Railway Union, who twice made the nation feel the fist of unionized labor. The second time was the great strike against the Pullman Co. in 1894 when President Cleveland had to despatch troops...
...Christmas Day, 1921, President Harding pardoned a model prisoner, a broken prophet. Around him he saw his Socialist Party disintegrating; within him he felt his strength ebbing. His speeches seemed almost pathetic; his pen had lost its throb. A month ago he went to a sanitarium in Elmhurst, Ill., where he died, aged...
...basis of new evidence which he had heard last month (TIME, Sept. 27). He concluded that one Celestino Madeiros, who confessed to the murder charged against Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, was "a crook, a thief, a robber, a liar, a rumrunner, a 'bouncer' in a house of ill-fame, a smuggler and a man who was being convicted and sentenced to death for murder." Other evidence did not warrant the belief of his story. Also Judge Thayer could find no "fraudulent conspiracy between the Governments of the U. S. and the State of Massachusetts...
...members of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia took their seats for their annual meeting last week in an atmosphere of ill-concealed excitement. Weeks before, the committee on awards had notified Dr. William David Coolidge, assistant research director of the General Electric Co., that he was this year's recipient of the Howard N. Potts gold medal, in recognition of his now universally used invention, the Coolidge X-ray tube. And Dr. Coolidge had replied, saying that he would present himself for the reward, and at the same time submit a demonstration called: "A Method of Producing High Voltage...
Died. Eugene Victor Debs, 71, five times Socialist candidate for President; at the Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ill., of kidney disease and myocarditis, following a nervous breakdown...